I have John Jordan who emigrated to New Zealand abt 1863 and married Ellen Forde in Christchurch NZ on March 5 1866.
John's parents were likely Michael Jordan and unknown. Ellen's parents were Patrick Forde and Bridget Cavanagh.
He from Galway and she from Annaghdown according to their death certificates.
Any info or links would be very much appreciated.
Regards
Pete
NEW ZEALAND:Do you know much about their emigration? The dates, the reason why they left,who they might have travelled with?..etc.? Generally, more information was given at the port ofarrival rather than the port of departure. If you knew which city they arrived at, this could be a goodplace to find more information -and perhaps even find out an exact place of origin. There are lots ofbooks and documents available about the Irish emigration to NZ. There is a website you could lookat: http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/irish/2 for information about the Irish in New Zealand. The next thing you could do is find the counties and places in Ireland your family names are mostprevalent. Look at the website http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/ and perhapssomething will match some other clue you may have found elsewhere? If nothing turnsup ? it is advisable to try different variations of the spellings of the names. If you have a possiblefirst name you could try the Irish Census 1901, 1911 at www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ or the landvaluation record called Griffiths Valuationhttp://askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml The National Archives of Irelandhttp://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/ The National Library of Irelandhttp://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx The National Archives UK ? genealogy search:http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/
Cantwells Memrial of the Dead;
Kilmacduagh cemetery Gort;
erected by Andw Jordon in memory of his
mother-Cecely Jordon; 1851 (60)
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Jack Mc Donald